Architecture
Building design, aesthetics, and engineering.
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Architecture
The flat layout of the building made for constant chance encounters in the hallways. Vertical buildings create rigid boundaries, since floors and stairs are harder barriers, so the horizontal footprint caused people to run into dozens of others throughout a typical day. From the air, it looked like an oblique letter E (with a little extra E), and... See more
Coleman McCormick • MIT's Building 20: a Masterpiece of Utility
The architectural composition of a traditional Japanese Noh theatre.
The stage is typically constructed from hinoki (Japanese cypress). Originally, noh was played in open fields. When a theatre is recreated inside a building, it’s designed complete with details such as a roof, bridge with a handrail and a pine tree... See more
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Fallingwater House by Frank Lloyd Wright
HarvardX GSD1xThe Architectural Imagination
Lecture 1.1 Aesthetic Perception
Transcript:
K. MICHAEL HAYS: I'm in Gund Hall, which is the home of the Graduate School of Design. And I'm in the studio space, which is where the most intense activity takes place of design, of analysis and research, of imagination. We'll speak about the
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'Architects have to stop thinking in terms of buildings only. Built and physical architecture, freed from the technological limitations of the past, will more intensely work with spatial qualities as well as the psychological ones. The process of erection will get a new meaning, spaces will have more consciously have haptic, optic and acoustic... See more